Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.

Malum Aurantium.

Orenges are brought hither of three kinds, some ex∣ceeding sweet, others soure, and the third sort unsavory, or of no rellish. The first sort are sweet and temperate∣ly hot, of indifferent nourishment, good for stoppings of the brest, rhumes and melancholy. Very soure Orenges are extreamly cold, making thin and watrish blood, and griping the belly; but right Civil-orenges have a pleasant verdure betwixt sweet and soure; whose juice and flesh preserved, cause a good appetite, bridle choler, quench thirst, yet neither cool nor dry in any excess. As for un∣savory Orenges, they neither nourish nor serve to any good use; but lie heavy in the stomach, stirring up wind and breeding obstructions in the belly: being eaten with sugar and cinamon, civil-orenges give a pretty nourish∣ment to aguish persons, whose stomachs can digest no strong meats; and also their pills preserved do somewhat nourish, especially if they be not spoiled of the white part, which is most nourishing; as the outward rind con∣trariwise is most medicinable; chuse the heaviest, ripest, and best coloured, and those that taste pleasantly betwixt sweet and soure.